[liberationtech] A "Whiff" of Something Over Washington....

[Robert Mathews (OSIA)]

*Adam Schiff Accused of Protecting a Suspected FBI Surveillance Dragnet*
Dell Cameron
*GIZMODO*
Yesterday 9:47AM
https://gizmodo.com/adam-schiff-accused-of-protecting-a-suspected-fbi-surve-1844617109

        "Nearly a dozen civil liberties organizations have accused
        Congressman Adam Schiff and other Democratic leaders of
        purposely undermining the online privacy of U.S. citizens and
        immigrants; possibly in an effort, they say, to conceal the
        unlawful surveillance of Americans’ web browsing activity by the
        FBI’s national security branch."

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*Civil Liberties Letter: Has Government’s Dragnet Internet Surveillance
Returned?*
Project For Privacy & Surveillance Accountability
8/6/2020

https://www.protectprivacynow.org/news--updates/civil-liberties-letter-has-governments-dragnet-internet-surveillance-returned

https://www.protectprivacynow.org/uploads/7/3/3/8/73384497/surveillance_fact-finding_letter_aug2020.pdf

        "Sean Vitka, senior policy counsel at Demand Progress,
        told /Gizmodo/ that he believes that Adam Schiff, chair of the
        House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, reworked the
        language in a recent reform bill that would actually “allow for
        domestic surveillance on everybody.”"
         

          * "These questions are emerging in the aftermath of Congress’s
            allowing Section 215 – the “business records” provision
            allowing for warrantless surveillance of Americans’ private
            information held by businesses – to sunset.

         
        "“After an intense lobbying campaign by congressional champions
        of the intelligence community to reauthorize Section 215, they
        have fallen mysteriously quiet and apparently satisfied,”
        Schaerr said. “This alone should arouse suspicion.”"

--
/Dr. Robert Mathews, D.Phil.
Principal Technologist &
//Distinguished Senior Research Scholar//
//Office of Scientific Inquiry & Applications (OSIA)//
//University of Hawai'i/
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